Cultural diversity has always been at the heart of my life and identity. I was born into a family with Galician and French cultural heritages, and I grew up in Guatemala, Dominican Republic, and Spain. I studied psychology at the Autónoma University of Madrid, Spain, and obtained my Ph.D. at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. I have been on the faculty of the University of Amsterdam and Brunel University, London (U.K.), and I am currently Professor of Psychology at Wesleyan University.

My research has been published in social psychology (e.g., Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology), cultural psychology (e.g., Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology), and emotion (e.g., Cognition & Emotion, Emotion) journals. I was also lead editor of the special issue ‘The Centrality of Social Image in Social Psychology’ for the European Journal of Social Psychology and sole editor of the special issue ‘In the Name of Honor: On Virtue, Reputation, and Violence’ for the journal Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. My scholarship also connects with the arts as I had the opportunity to collaborate on the project Muslim Women’s Voices at Wesleyan.

I have been Associate Editor of the European Journal of Social Psychology and Frontiers in Psychology: Cultural Psychology, and Consulting Editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Revista de Psicología Social.